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L & V ft r '- A " X fl t BAMHaJAalaauaMa& ''"I'" jfcilDHBBgm'.Bgg1 r -VOL. 10, No: 27. PRICE FIVB CBNTS, '1 - i LINCOLN, NEB., SATURDAY, JUNE 22, 1895. J OBSERVATIONS. HEN Mr. Croan left Lincoln he carried with him the following testimonial: My Dear Mr. Croan I hare read all of the article published about you by two of the pa pers of this city, but haro not seen fit to inako any reference to them whatever in the Journal. 1 am satisfied that they aro untruthful and. unfaii", and when occasion oilers the Journal will say as much. I happen to know personally that the failuro to develop the Western Normal College into the Kreatest school of its kind in the country was due, first, to the drouth and panic,and second to tus fail uro of the real estate syndicate which brought you hero to meet its agroomouts. This failure was caused by the hard times and it seems to me that thore is nothiig of a hard nature that can be said about anybody connected with the cnterpriso. Assuring you of my personal es teem and confidence I am, cordially yours. Win. Owen' Jones, Managing Editor Neb. State Journal. This precious thing was published in ono of the papers in Anderson, Jnd. I didn't know Mr. Jones' capabilitities in the way of testimonials. His services ought to be secured by some patent medicine concern like Hood's or Ayer's. If this beautiful letter that he gave to his dear friend Croan, about whom "nothing of a hard nature can be said,'" had only been accompanied by one of those big two column cuts that nearly always go with letters of this kind, how much more effective it would have been! For instance if Mr. Croan had had printed, immediately following the testi monial, a zinc etching of the writer, with a bottle of ink in one hand and a tennis racket in the other, his chubby cheeks glowing with health and beauty, people would have been attracted to the letter in much the same way that Hies are at tracted to molasses. Mr. Jones is a prize testimonial writer. Ho brings to bear that powerful imag ination of his when he sets himself out to give a "character," ana the effect is fine. Mr. Jones has done so well with "Dear Mr. Croan' that it might be well for him to try his hand at a testimonial for Charlie Mosher. I belive he could do well with Mosher. He could use parts of his Mosher editorials and sup plement what ho has already written with some of his exquisite fiction, and assure the fallen Napoleon of his "per sonal esteem and confidence," and the result would be something to be proud of By all means give us a Jones testi monial of Mosher. Few people, including what the socie ty papers sometimes call "tho contract ing parties," consider tho significance of the various observance! that go to make up tho wedding ceremony. Many regard the ceremony as a mere form, and as such dismiss it with little thought. The Rev. John Hewitt dis cusses the religious marriage service elsewhere in this issue of The Courier in a particularly interesting manner. One of the most interesting weekly papers that come to The Courier is the Saturday Revieic, of Des Moines. This is a well edited paper, and I am surprised to find in it an article entitled "Persecuting a Preacher." The article is abusive of newspapers that have had the temerity to rebuke Prof. George D. Herron. That inconoclastic pedagogue is defended with an enthusiasm that reflects more credit on the Review's zeal than upon its good judgment. The Review says: "The treatment accorded by many of these newspapers, including our own non-intellectual Des Moines Register, to Prof. George D. Herron, of Iowa college, demonstrates it to all who really know what manner of man Dr. Herron is, but does not demonstrate it to many good people who, not knowing him, do not realize that for the past yetr or more scarcely a word of the mtny thousands that havo been published in their col umns about him can be justly character ized as anything less than coarse and brutal lies. What offense Dr. Herron may have committed to justify such continued and such cruel persecution it is hard to imagine. He is, if ever there was one upon the earth, a man of good heart and noble purpose, and certainly, to the unprejudiced, thinking minds that have read his books or listened to his lectures or sermons he has written or uttered no thought that, in its proper connection, justifiesany one of the many accusations that are so loosely put into circulation with respect to the charac ter of tho doctrine that he preaches." PFollowing tho Herron address in this city a ear ago, the Lincoln papers, or most of them, expressed themselves very plainly; but I do not remember that many evils to be remedied in our social institutions; but tho mero saying that these institutions are wholly bud will not uunmplish tho rosult thinking poo plearestrivinii for. Tho Herrons, along with tho red shirted anarchists, onl de lay the progress of genuine Christian Focialism. They are enemies of the public peace, and as such thpy should be restrained. The newspapers that have rebuked Herron have exercised ono of tho highest functionsof the press that of standing between clamoring, gibbering disorganizes revolutionists, and tho honest sober thought and im pulse of rational people A few days ago as I was hurrying along O street I was stopped by u well dressed, sleek looking darkey, grip in hand, with the query "Say, mister, do you know that great speaker that lives here, Mr. O'Brien?" The African gentleman admitted after some ques tioning that he was in search of that patriot William Jennings Brj an, and I directed him to the McMurtry block, first telling him that "O'Brien" was out of the city. O'Brien, indeed! Such is fame. 1 v. ' rw mmk y&f 'iMM " .--U..- ml' fm wl'tlmm fj jar Mm m kk V V 8V 'F "bW .Hr A PAIR OF LINCOLN CYCLISTS. anything was said that could be charac terized as "coarse and brutal lies"; and none of the criticisms published else wherenone that I havo seen at least is deserving of this characterization. The JteLi'eic8a8 it is hard to imagine what offense Herron has committed. Not very hard. Mr. Herron has sought to tako a short road to popular favor by the most blatant appeals to a senti ment that should be checked instead of advanced. He has, in his sensational ism, set himself against the sober, earnest thought of the time that is trying, reasonably, and calmly, to solve the vexing problems now before the people; and he has arrayed himself on the side of the anarchists and all those who disseminate ideas of disloyalty to government and propagate the tenets of communism. Mr. Herron attacks, in his public addresses, the institutions of government with all the venom of a Herr Most, and he has no remedy to ap ply to the evils that exist. He fosters the spirit of distrust in those principles and ideas on which this nation has been builded. He assails in a reckless man ner much that is good and desirable and caters to a tendency at once unpat riotic and demoralizing. There are, The ( ol'kiek last week contained the announcements of four births in Lin coln's social circles. All of the births chronicled were girls. The new arrivals are all girls now, just as last fall they were all bojs. If a prevalence of male birhs signifies a war twenty years hence what does it signify when the children born aro practically all girls? Maybe it portends a boom in the new woman movement perhaps it will be found on examination, that twenty years ago, birtlu were largely confined to female children. Leaving all outside considerations aside there is a verj general unanimity in the view that the appraisers who fixed the price on the Dorgan peniten tiary contract, did their duty honestly and fairly. Of course Mr. Rosewater is not pleased. He never is. The ll'orW Herald which is not slow to criticize anything in any way connected with re publican administration, says: "In 1891, when Charlie Mosher was free and prosperous, the editor of the Bee went before a legislative committee and defended the prison contract. Now that Mosher is down the Bee cannot say anything too mean about him. The Bee is now engaged in a bitter denunciition of the appraisement of tho prison con tract. It is hardly necessary to com ment upon this situation. The appraise ment has been certified to by Captain Hroatch, whoso integrity has never yet been questioned by any decent man, and J. N. Gallln, who is known to be a man of absolute honesty. In tho light of these facts it is not oven necessary to go into details. Tho only person who questions the integrity of the prison ap praisement is the editor of tho Bee, and everybody knows that the Bee man de limits in misrepresentation and abuse of men whom he cannot use. Tho Bee will find that it has a very dillicult task in making the people believe that Gov ernor Holcomb, ex-Speaker Gatlin and Captain Broatch would knowingly in dorse a corrupt deal." The Bee has been having hysterics daily over the award. Mr. Rosowater should try Munyon's. The Rev. John Hewitt, rector of tno Church of tho Holy Trinity, is the centre of a rather interesting controversy just now that will have its finale in Minne apolis next October, at tho general convention of tho Episcopal church. It will bo remembered that the recent council of the diocese of Nebraska failed to elect its full quota of deputies to tho general convention. Mr. Hewitt, who has always encountered opposition for what may be called tho extreme high church party, has been a deputy in recent conventions, and was elected to the last, held I believe, three years ago. He was the fourth deputy. At the council three deputies were elected, and Mr. II witt was voted for for the fourth place. The high church people opposed him, and finally the council adjourned without electing a fourth deputy. It is contended by tho controversialists in Omaha that this place is vacant; but Mr. Hewitt avers that he is entitled to a f-eat in the convention as a holitover deputy,and he promises to go to Minneapolis and take the same. He seems to be in a fair way to get it. M. Hewitt in a recent letter to the World Herald, in answer to a com munication signed "John Williams, sajs, in part: "Mr. Wool worth's opinion, as given in the article of June H, is apparently warped by his prejudice. If ho sajs that when delegates are elected to a general council and that body has adjourned sine die. they are in no wise eligible to seats in a sub sequent meeting unless regularly elected to that council, ho either does not know the law or, as I have said, his opinion is warped by his ecclesiastical bias or prejudice. Let us see. TitIe,canon 1, section 1, paragraph .', with regard to special meetings of the general conven tion, sajs: 'The deputies elected to the preceding genera' convention shall bo the deputies at such special convention, unless in those cases in which other deputies shall havo been chosen in the meantime, etc But Mr. Woolworth is represented as deciding that the term of office of deputies end when the conven tion to which they were elected ad jouns sine die! If this were so, a diocese could not be represented at a special meeting of the general convention with out calling a special meeting of its own council to elect them. There is no pro vision for this in this diocese, and the absence of such provision brings the diocese under the operation of the pro vision of the general convention in such a case as that we are considering. Again, article 2 of the constitution says ? I 4 ;& '91 M M